The impact of COVID pandemic has been profoundly disproportionate across different segments of populations and disrupted the development roadmap for South Asian economies.
For most of 2020, the world grappled with the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human life, society and economy. The crisis has upended decades of global development progress, with the combined health and economic shocks taking a toll on the lives and livelihoods of millions of people, disrupting business activities and exposing existing fault lines in social, economic and health systems.
The Covishield vaccine |
The pandemic forced us to face problems we have ignored for too long, and the existing inequities, fragilities and unsustainable practices…